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Bubba Ho-Tep (2002) or, Old Elvis & Black JFK vs. Souleating Mummy!



The weirdly attractive poster for Don Coscarelli's Bubba Ho-Tep

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Elvis is alive! - In a retirement home with cancer in his prick, alone. In the home we also find JFK, who claims to have been colored black and had a sand bag operated into his brain. Now a Southern mummy, who sucks the souls out of the old people's assholes, threatens!
One of the weirdest and most bizarre, American stories (based on a novella by Joe R. Lansdale) here comes to life with a fiery Bruce Campbell (The Evil Dead (1981)) and a just as enthusiastic, 86 year-old Ossie Davis (Do the Right Thing (1989)) by his side. The inordinate lines and consciously ridiculous situations go along with a cool mummy by Howard Berger (Day of the Dead (1985)) and crew, atmospheric-sentimental music by Brian Tyler (Eagle Eye (2008)) and true independent DIY-spirit.
At times the story is only gruff and miserable, and the visual part of Bubba Ho-Tep only has few values; the beginning is for instance flooded by some awful flash-sequences.
The movie is directed by Don Coscarelli, maker of the four Phantasm films (1979-98) and most recently the psych-out John Dies at the End (2012).
Ho-Tep achieved cult-status and much positive notice, and a joke post-script in the movie announcing a sequel thus became a real project. Coscarelli penned a script for Bubba Nosferatu: Curse of the She-Vampires long ago, and Campbell left the project over creative differences. Paul Giamatti is now attached, and possibly Ron Perlman as Elvis. But the backing for the film isn't secured yet.

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Bruce Campbell and Ossie Davis as Elvis and JFK in Don Coscarelli's Bubba Ho-Tep

Watch the trailer for the weird treat that is Bubba Ho-Tep right here

Budget: 1 mil. $
Box office: 1.2 mil. $
= Unspectacular

How do you like Bubba Ho-Tep?
Would you like to see sequels in which Elvis battles she-vampires, aliens ... ?

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